In today's inner city communities, such as South Los Angeles, high school drop out rates have never been higher; the prison population of blacks and browns is exploding, teen pregnancy and the AIDS are epidemics, and unemployment and homeless are the highest in 20 years. Classrooms are overcrowded with students suffering from poverty, pre-natal drug exposure, low self-esteem, depression, and incarcerated parents. Innocent children cannot focus at school because they have to walk through numerous gang turfs and crime infested streets just to get to school.